Welcome to Hax and Jack, the Fantasy Baseball podcast.

I am Joe Galena.

And as always, I'm joined by my buddy Scott Chu, who I got to see live and in person last week.

Scott, how are you doing this week?

Doing great.

Took a few days to recover from all that driving out to New York City.

But doing great now, just ready for real baseball.

Not that 6 a.m. baseball isn't real baseball.

But like, I want all the other teams to be playing

games that matter. So we're inching closer. Just a few more days. This podcast, uh, podcast debuts on

on Mondays. So just have a few more days, right? Thursday is opening day for the rest of the league.

And we are recording this on Sunday, 12, 10 p.m. Eastern time and we'll talk about

our tout drafts a little later but you know I was taking a look at the the chat and the

discord for picture list and all everybody can talk about is Shohei Otani in this situation

with his interpreter and I obviously, by the time we

record this, it's probably going to be new information coming out. And check me, if I get this wrong,

originally it appeared that Shohay Otani's interpreter stole money from Shohei.

And then there were other stories that, no,

Shohay was just paying off his interpreter's gambling debts.

And then this morning I was reading about the background of his interpreter.

I don't want to mispronounce his name, but I believe it's Ipe Mizahura.

And I guess former interpreter,

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